survival
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The researchers estimated that beginning about 10,000 years ago, people with roughly 10 or more copies had a 1.24% survival or reproductive advantage per generation.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
For most restaurants, even the very high-end ones, working with the apps is a matter of survival.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
It represented years of labor, centuries of knowledge and an entire community’s economic survival.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
"Some concerns include disruption to food security for the people of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, who rely on the ocean resources for their survival," Apatang told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
It took seventy years for that answer to establish itself, but once the telescope had been invented and turned into a scientific instrument it was the only answer with any chance of survival.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Most existing Celtic objects—found in bogs and burial mounds—are durable works in stone, bone, glass, metal and terracotta with rare survivals in wood, leather and cloth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
And there is Van Gogh's At Eternity's Gate - one of the very rare survivals of his first printmaking campaign during which he produced six lithographs in November 1882.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2025
So, a therapy specifically aimed at preserving high intratumour heterogeneity may make sense according to this theoretical approach, as it may slow cancer growth and thus lead to longer survivals.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2023
Iberia, too, had execution survivals that resolved in freedom for the executed.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2022
The conditions of life in these isolated places are seldom investigated, and yet we find there are some remarkable survivals of old customs and relics of ancient laws.
From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers by Various
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